The Dirce Painter was an important Sicilian vase-painter, likely working at Syracuse, during the first quarter of the 4th century B.C. As Trendall informs (The Red-figure Vases of South Italy and Sicily, p. 29), he is “an artist of considerable significance not only because he established certain canons of vase-decoration which were followed by his Sicilian successors, but also as the chief ‘forerunner’ of both early Campanian and Paestan.” Trendall attributes only 22 vases to him, mostly calyx- or bell-kraters. On the Dechter vase, a centaur wielding a tree-trunk attacks a warrior with a spear and shield, while the bust of a satyr emerges behind a raised groundline, looking down from above.